National Gazette

SAVANNAH, May 3.

Yesterday the honorable James Iredell and Nathaniel Pendleton, Esqs. gave judgment, in the Circuit Court, in the interesting case wherein Samuel Brailsford and others were plaintiffs, and James Spalding defendant. One of the plaintiffs (Mr. Brailsford) was a real British subject, being a native of Great Britain, and having resided there from 1767 to 1784, and the other plaintiffs were citizens of South Carolina, whose property (with an express exception of their debt) was confiscated in that state. The Judges gave their opinions, with their reasons at large, and the substance of their opinions was, that, as Mr. Brailsford's debts were only sequestered by a law of the state, upon which no further proceedings had taken place, the treaty of peace, as confirmed by the constitution of the United States, must have the effect of an express repeal of that part of the act of assembly which had created an impediment to his recovery: and that there was no bar in respect to the recovery of the other plaintiffs, in as much as, under the act of assembly of this state affecting them, their debts were not confiscated, because their debts had not been confiscated in the state of South-Carolina, the act of assembly of this state making citizens of other states; liable to the same measure (and no other) in this state as in their own. They therefore gave judgment for the plaintiffs.